Introduction to ASIC Design Flow

October 10, 2016, anysilicon

Today, ASIC design flow is a mature process with many individual steps. ASIC design flow process is the backbone of every ASIC design project. To ensure design success, one must have: a silicon-proven ASIC design flow, a good understanding of the ASIC specifications and requirements, and an absolute domination over the required EDA tools (and their inputs and outputs).

A simplified version of an ASIC design flow is described in the following diagram. Although analog ASIC design and digital ASIC design have some differences, they still share a common structured backbone.